Our-Lady Ter Hooyen

It gave shelter to the beguines coming from small nobility and the newly formed middle class.

With the French occupation of Belgium the beguinage with all it possessions became property of the Commissie der Burgerlijke Godshuizen van de Stad Gent.

In the year 1862 the Duke of Arenberg bought the entire beguinage from the Commission.

The seven stations of the circumambulation in honour of our Lady of the Seven Sorrows testify to the devotion of the citizens.

The building where the Mistress of the beguines and her staff lived is situated in the northern corner of the beguinage.

Most of the houses have a little front yard, enclosed by a high wall and a gate with a peephole.